...What if, Weldon wondered, this sibling had lived? It’s the sort of “what if” that might have led to a saccharine, doe-eyed tale of sisterly love for the life that never was, if nothing else. But Weldon is not one to weigh herself down...her sister Fay’s boyfriend Derek – “he loved her, but I had sexual wiles and she did not”; and her ex-husband, Karl, also stolen from Fay – something about which Frances felt “bad but not all that bad”. In fact, almost everything about...Review by Susan Elderkin